Society is going crazy and movies can't be blamed for it.

Yesterday I went to see the excellent Joker again in theaters and I confess that I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience that was present at my session (the last one of the night and supposedly the most adult). It was not unheard of, but really atypical and dark in its intensity. It was as if almost the whole cinema was being abducted by something unnameable (such was the strangeness of the situation).

Judging by the reaction (and for the comments / shouts of protest out loud) of many people during the film's screening, it was almost unanimous among them that the film was merely a excuse (with poetic narrative license) to incite the chaos and violence in a visibly disguised form of art with, cult appeal.

So, the question remains: What is the reason for this?

I don't know if these people watched the same movie as me, or if they were just looking for some kind of scapegoat to dump their frustrations (whether personal, political or social). However, there is no denying... There is something very wrong with this way of thinking and especially in the kind of correlation that is established within this weird parameter.

I don't mention whether the movie is good or not (this is totally relative because it is intrinsically linked to a personal matter... and that is something you cannot discuss), but rather to see so many people playing just this movie (because I've seen it happen again, with other movies) but cinema as a common thread to trigger bad reactions.

Films are the products generated by the Seventh Art and must be understood as artistic manifestos that, despite having an influence on life outside the media, are not (at least in a direct way) responsible for the actions of each human being. Much less, they can be used as an escape valve to transfer the blame for the events of the true culprits (and I just won't comment on that here so as not to divert focus from the post).

Each human being is a unique individual and everyone has their own particularities ... Therefore, each movie has a kind of influence on each one of them. But no movie, however impactful, has the power to cause so much personal transformation in society to the point of creating a revolution.

There is a scene in the movie Scream 2 (link below) that illustrates well what I would like to point out with this post because it attacks the very root of what would be the problem seen by these people who like to blame the movies for the actions taken by people in the real world.

"Life imitates art... Or, art imitates life." - Certainly many of you have read this in a book or seen it in a movie / TV series, and indeed it is true. In contrast, there are barriers between the realities that differ between these two fields (which, by the way, are quite distinct from each other) and that is precisely why people should start to reflect better
and change these kinds of thoughts.

I even agree with the fact that some movies can serve as a springboard for some punctual change in each person (depending on their personality). However, I see this only in specific aspects that are just waiting for a push to be modified... But still, that doesn't justify this misrepresentation that, it seems, is becoming quite common when comparing cinema with a new form of " indoctrination".

Have you ever stopped to think about it?